Over the past 20 years, classic genetic approaches have shown that the developmental program underlying flower formation involves a large number of transcriptional regulators. However, the target genes of these transcription factors, as well as the gene regulatory networks they control, remain largely unknown. Chromatin immunoprecipitation coupled to next-generation sequencing (ChIP-Seq), which allows the identification of transcription factor binding sites on a genome-wide scale, has been successfully applied to a number of transcription factors in Arabidopsis. The ChIP-Seq procedure involves chemical cross-linking of proteins to DNA, followed by chromatin fragmentation and immunoprecipitation of specific protein-DNA complexes. The regions of the genome bound by a specific transcription factor can then be identified after next-generation sequencing. © Springer Science+Business Media, New York 2014.
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Graciet, E., Ó’Maoiléidigh, D. S., & Wellmer, F. (2014). Next-generation sequencing applied to flower development: ChIP-Seq. Methods in Molecular Biology, 1110, 413–429. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9408-9_24
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